FoodandRestaurants

Farmers market listings for Nov. 5

Editor’s note: The farmers markets vegetable and food product lists are featured every week on The Advocate’s website, http://www.theadvocate.com, and on the first Thursday of each month in The Advocate’s Food section.

At the Saturday Market, the cooking demonstration will feature special guest Michael Prados, who recently attended the White House’s Kids State Dinner. Chef Celeste Gill and Prados will make an autumn soup and suggest ways to get kids in the kitchen and eating healthy.

The Thursday Market will open at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road. Shoppers should enter off Kenilworth Boulevard, at Irene Drive. The Tuesday Market on Goodwood Boulevard will also reopen this week.

Louisiana Purchase, credit and debit cards are accepted at all locations of the Red Stick Farmers Market.

Area farmers and artisan food producers scheduled to be at the farmers market from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Fifth and Main in downtown Baton Rouge include:

Covington Market

The Covington Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon each Saturday on the side lawn of City Hall, 609 N. Columbia St., and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Wednesday at the Covington Trailhead, 419 N. New Hampshire.

In the cooking demonstration, vendors Steve and Elizabeth Nuccio will serve and sell muffalottas, infused oils and olive salad. Vintage Jazz will provide music beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Fresh produce will include squash, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, onions, greens, lettuces, beets, broccoli, radishes and other seasonal produce. Available fruits will include satsumas.